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| <H3>SCENE I. A Senator's house.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter Senator, with papers in his hand</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>Senator</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>And late, five thousand: to Varro and to Isidore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>He owes nine thousand; besides my former sum,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Which makes it five and twenty. Still in motion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Of raging waste? It cannot hold; it will not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>If I want gold, steal but a beggar's dog,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>And give it Timon, why, the dog coins gold.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>If I would sell my horse, and buy twenty more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Better than he, why, give my horse to Timon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>Ask nothing, give it him, it foals me, straight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>And able horses. No porter at his gate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>But rather one that smiles and still invites</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>All that pass by. It cannot hold: no reason</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>Can found his state in safety. Caphis, ho!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>Caphis, I say!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CAPHIS</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>CAPHIS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=15>Here, sir; what is your pleasure?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>Senator</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=16>Get on your cloak, and haste you to Lord Timon;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>Importune him for my moneys; be not ceased</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>With slight denial, nor then silenced when--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>'Commend me to your master'--and the cap</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>Plays in the right hand, thus: but tell him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>My uses cry to me, I must serve my turn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Out of mine own; his days and times are past</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>And my reliances on his fracted dates</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Have smit my credit: I love and honour him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>But must not break my back to heal his finger;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Immediate are my needs, and my relief</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>Must not be toss'd and turn'd to me in words,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>But find supply immediate. Get you gone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Put on a most importunate aspect,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>A visage of demand; for, I do fear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>When every feather sticks in his own wing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>Lord Timon will be left a naked gull,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>Which flashes now a phoenix. Get you gone.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>CAPHIS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=34>I go, sir.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>Senator</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=35>'I go, sir!'--Take the bonds along with you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>And have the dates in contempt.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>CAPHIS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=37>I will, sir.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>Senator</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=38>Go.</A><br> | |
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